Adam
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The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
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In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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I know these seem like basic questions I'm sure they've already asked but...why? To ensure what? In case *what* happens, exactly? To protect people from...what? Based on *what* research?* To what end?
*I know the answer is 'because cruelty', thanks.
*I know the answer is 'because cruelty', thanks.
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I know these seem like basic questions I'm sure they've already asked but...why? To ensure what? In case *what* happens, exactly? To protect people from...what? Based on *what* research?* To what end?
*I know the answer is 'because cruelty', thanks.
*I know the answer is 'because cruelty', thanks.
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Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
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Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer
Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.
www.bigissue.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.
Must redistribute or risk social disorder.
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BREAKING: The UK spending watchdog has admonished the Labour Government for being 'unable' to account for billions of pounds allocated to nuclear projects
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
BREAKING: The UK spending watchdog has admonished the Labour Government for being 'unable' to account for billions of pounds allocated to nuclear projects
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Israeli's chief military prosecutor has been arrested and will likely face trial for "perverting the course of justice".
Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.
Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.
Following the documented rape of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teyman, the military prosecutor ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved.
There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence.
Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt.
1/
There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence.
Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt.
1/
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Israeli's chief military prosecutor has been arrested and will likely face trial for "perverting the course of justice".
Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.
Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.
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I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.
As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century
That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone
That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.
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Time to make my annual war christmas post.
My grandfather, who fought in WW1, refused to wear a poppy because the poppies were originally the Haig Fund, named after Field Marshall Haig who got many of his friends killed.
Haig was paid £100k (£5m today), veterans had to rely on charity.
My grandfather, who fought in WW1, refused to wear a poppy because the poppies were originally the Haig Fund, named after Field Marshall Haig who got many of his friends killed.
Haig was paid £100k (£5m today), veterans had to rely on charity.
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Time to make my annual war christmas post.
My grandfather, who fought in WW1, refused to wear a poppy because the poppies were originally the Haig Fund, named after Field Marshall Haig who got many of his friends killed.
Haig was paid £100k (£5m today), veterans had to rely on charity.
My grandfather, who fought in WW1, refused to wear a poppy because the poppies were originally the Haig Fund, named after Field Marshall Haig who got many of his friends killed.
Haig was paid £100k (£5m today), veterans had to rely on charity.
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He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
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And if the contorted logic of this statement is that smartphones and social media radicalise their users with the kind of transphobic bigotry which led to Brianna's death, then the entire Labour front bench should have their phones confiscated immediately.
can you explain to me in detail what specific controls on social media or smartphones sould have helped to prevent this situation?
Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
And if the contorted logic of this statement is that smartphones and social media radicalise their users with the kind of transphobic bigotry which led to Brianna's death, then the entire Labour front bench should have their phones confiscated immediately.
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one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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Polanski or whoever should be stealing some of this stuff I reckon:
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Polanski or whoever should be stealing some of this stuff I reckon:
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Once again, the most poignant SEO optimised headline to define our current moment
October 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Once again, the most poignant SEO optimised headline to define our current moment
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Labour, Tories and the Farageists, representing a combined 525 out of 650 seats in the HoC and 66% of current public voting intention, all locked in a hysterical arms race to win the Send Them Back vote, relentlessly egged on by the gutter press. A self-reinforcing dynamic now utterly out of control
October 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Labour, Tories and the Farageists, representing a combined 525 out of 650 seats in the HoC and 66% of current public voting intention, all locked in a hysterical arms race to win the Send Them Back vote, relentlessly egged on by the gutter press. A self-reinforcing dynamic now utterly out of control
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When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
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"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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And if another Labour Together successor like Streeting takes over it will go from bad to worse. But McSweeney would rather see Reform in government than return the Labour Party to any kind of mild social democratic position.
More than half of Labour members do not want Starmer to lead party into next general election - poll
More than half of Labour members do not want Starmer to lead party into next general election - poll
More than half of Labour members do not want Sir Keir Starmer to fight the next general election as party leader, a new poll has revealed.
news.sky.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
And if another Labour Together successor like Streeting takes over it will go from bad to worse. But McSweeney would rather see Reform in government than return the Labour Party to any kind of mild social democratic position.
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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Absolutely abhorrent, morally abject & irredeemable bleak stuff from ITV here. This is deportation porn & is the doing the work of fascism: sensationalising state violence against the vulnerable to normalise & mainstream its acceptance whilst driving clicks & viewing figures
EXCL: “You can’t deport me”.
ITV has filmed a deportation flight for the first time, gaining unprecedented access.
47 foreign criminals were removed from the UK to Romania.
Some had to be physically restrained. Other were paid up to £2,000 to leave.
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
ITV has filmed a deportation flight for the first time, gaining unprecedented access.
47 foreign criminals were removed from the UK to Romania.
Some had to be physically restrained. Other were paid up to £2,000 to leave.
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
www.itv.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Absolutely abhorrent, morally abject & irredeemable bleak stuff from ITV here. This is deportation porn & is the doing the work of fascism: sensationalising state violence against the vulnerable to normalise & mainstream its acceptance whilst driving clicks & viewing figures